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Comparing 'Spring Offensive' and 'Into Battle'.
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Comparing 'Spring Offensive' and 'Into Battle' These are two poems written during the First World War by two serving soldiers. They use their own experience of war, their personal and family backgrounds and their previously held beliefs in writing these powerful poems, both of which were published during the conflict. The first poem 'Spring Offensive' was written in 1917 by Wilfred Owen and the second 'Into Battle' by Julian Grenfell was completed in 1915. These poems used the contrast between the new life of spring, with the promise of warmer days to follow and the destruction and brutality of death on the battlefield. In Owens' poem he uses spring as a short introduction to the scene and leads quite suddenly into the horror of death on the front line. He leads the reader into a calm situation where tired soldiers rest before they move forward. The soldiers do not have a care...
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